Non-attendance of mammographic screening: the roles of age and municipality in a population-based Swedish sample

Zidar, Maria Norfjord; Larm, Peter; Tillgren, Per; Akhavan, Sharareh

doi:10.1186/s12939-015-0291-7

International Journal for Equity in Health

Table 1 Socio-demographic characteristics of the municipalities, women aged 40 to 74 in 2012

From: Non-attendance of mammographic screening: the roles of age and municipality in a population-based Swedish sample

Municipality	A		B		C		D		E		F		G		H		I		J
Urban/Rural area	Urban		Rural		Rural		Rural		Rural		Rural		Rural		Rural		Rural		Rural
Distance to the sole mammographic facility	km <19		km 20–39		km 20–39		km 40–59		km 40–59		km 40–59		km 40–59		km 60–79		km 60–79		km 60–79
Non-attendance (N, %)	N	%	N	%	N	%	N	%	N	%	N	%	N	%	N	%	N	%	N	%
Non-attendance (N, %)	4953	18.0	376	17.6	612	18.8	579	19.9	936	19.9	1164	20.9	357	21.5	522	19.6	213	24.4	259	21.7
Labour position (%)
Gainfully employed	60.38		54.22		56.11		56.52		61.71		58.88		58.49		57.82		55.66		58.68
Highest share of low income earner (%) (women, aged 20–64)	21.71		19.38		21.10		21.76		20.00		22.26		18.36		21.48		20.51		20.36
Educational level (%)
A ≤10 years	16.84		24.90		28.11		21.75		16.63		20.51		21.35		27.76		25.58		23.66
B 11–15 years	60.36		63.52		64.61		62.17		67.24		65.06		63.55		63.56		61.40		66.46
C >15 years	21.93		10.92		12.50		15.52		15.43		13.67		13.99		11.95		12.47		11.64
D No information	0.85		0.65		0.94		0.54		0.69		0.74		1.09		0.72		0.53		0.22
Civil status (%)
Unmarried/divorced/ widowed	45.40		40.91		43.21		44.34		46.25		45.16		41.67		47.70		46.08		46.29
Married	54.59		58.92		56.61		55.72		53.73		54.64		58.07		52.29		54.19		53.71
Health (days)
Incapacity measure - number of days of sick-leave	181.99		233.85		212.39		174.19		190.04		184.43		195.71		198.79		211.98		195.58
Type of household (%)
Renting	21.95		13.59		24.17		29.70		27.61		26.39		22.58		13.95		19.80		19.25
Ownership/right in a co-operative building society dwelling	71.35		83.17		70.90		65.76		67.87		69.96		74.18		82.27		75.53		77.35
Special/Other building/ Information missing	6.70		3.24		4.94		4.53		4.51		3.65		3.24		3.78		4.66		3.40
Ethnicity (%)
Foreign-born women in the female population, age group 35–65+	21.42		25.83		21.66		11.88		10.12		20.58		15.51		24.27		20.00		13.46
Family size (%)
0 children	78.16		78.99		79.40		79.85		79.45		80.09		78.83		80.60		83.69		81.87
1–3 children	21.26		20.23		19.62		19.51		19.94		19.22		20.24		18.73		15.79		17.20
4 or more children	0.57		0.79		0.98		0.64		0.60		0.69		0.94		0.68		0.52		0.93
Age (%)
40–49	33.07		27.17		29.49		28.63		28.45		29.83		28.25		29.07		23.07		26.34
50–59	26.99		26.74		27.11		25.71		28.65		28.25		27.26		26.15		29.71		29.67
60–69	28.95		34.51		30.78		33.03		31.59		30.51		33.00		31.49		34.56		33.46
70–74	10.99		11.58		12.62		12.63		11.30		11.41		11.49		13.29		12.66		10.53

Note. Number of invited, attending and non-attending, women, total: 52,541. In some instances, age range differs from 40 to 74 due to the type of variable that has been investigated
Educational level: A: Low (≤10 years), B: Middle (11–15 years), C: High >15 years), and D: No information about level of educational attainment

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